At this time, there were many onlookers in the Baodan Pavilion, some sympathized with the lying women, some were as angry as the men, and were extremely resistant to selling fake medicines and eating dead people's medicines, and of course, there were some people who were really helped by the Baodan Pavilion and did not want to believe that there was a problem with the medicine in the Baodan Pavilion.

"You, you deceive too much!" The man shouted angrily at Xiao Shi, he staggered to his feet, his hand was so painful that he couldn't stand up, he threatened fiercely, "If you can't solve it for me, I'll go to the official right now, and let the master deal with you!" ”

"Just let your boss come out." Someone in the crowd shouted, "Let us know what the hell is going on." ”

"What's going on, this person must have come to frame the boss, the boss is so good, how can he sell problematic medicine?"

"I didn't frame, I didn't!" When the man heard these people's words, he turned to them excitedly, and cried out like a wronged man, "I have proof here." ”

He took out a piece of paper and opened it to face the crowd: "You see, this is the list of medicines we bought here, and there is a record of time, we did buy medicine from them, and we only sold medicine from them, my mother-in-law has become like this now, her life is in danger, but the boss of Baodan Pavilion has avoided it, isn't it a weak heart?" ”

"If you come out late, is your heart weak?"

When everyone heard this somewhat familiar voice, they all looked towards the door of the inner hall, and sure enough, Qiu Xiaobei, who was carrying Jing'an and Xiaoxizi, walked out slowly, and there was no fear or weakness in their hearts.

"Haunted by the enemy."

"Boss Qiu."

"Doctor Qiu!"

There were all sorts of names, all of them asking what was going on.

"Wow, you've finally come out." The troublesome man snorted, pointed to his unconscious wife, and then pointed at Qiu Xiaobei, "If you don't give me an explanation today, I will definitely ask you to pay for my wife's life." ”

"Confess?" Qiu Xiaobei snorted and slowly walked to the lying woman, "Your wife still has a breath, you don't want to save her first, but you are in a hurry to explain to me?" Do you really care about your wife? ”

The man's face flashed with weakness when he was said, but he quickly hardened again: "I, why didn't I want to save her, I have already taken her to see the doctor, but ......" he cried whining, "but all the doctors told me that my wife is not saved, and I have no choice." ”

He changed his words and pointed at Qiu Xiaobei fiercely again: "It's you, you hurt her, I want you to pay for your life!" ”

Xiao Shi leaned sideways in front of Qiu Xiaobei, and a man pointed his finger at Xiaobei so rudely, and cut off that finger.

The other party was frightened, and while withdrawing his fingers, he unwillingly cried to the crowd: "Look, this is what you call the bodhisattva's heart? It's clearly a human-faced beast's heart! ”

"She is a ghost poison," in the other party's crying, Qiu Xiaobei's voice was particularly clear, and he was not taken away by the other party at all, "Do you know what ghost poison is?" ”

Seeing that the crowd was confused, Qiu Xiaobei stretched out his hand, and Xiaoxizi handed over a prepared thing like a wooden stick to Qiu Xiaobei.

This stick is only the thickness of the thumb and only half an arm's length.

Qiu Xiaobei put it into the water, which softened the façade of the obviously dried small wooden stick, and it was still swimming in the water, like a snake.

"This is the ghost Teng, poisonous, but at the same time it can be used as medicine."

"That's you, you want to use this ghost Teng to replace the medicine originally given to us, but it turned out to be the wrong amount, and it hurt my mother!"

Qiu Xiaobei sneered, under her instructions, Xiao Shi took the medicine list in the man's hand, everyone thought she was going to destroy the evidence, but after Qiu Xiaobei got the medicine list, she showed it to everyone openly: "Judging from the medicine list, this woman only had a little diarrhea at the time, it was not serious, eat something light, and it will be fine in two days, and the medicines that I came to buy are also very ordinary and simple, and the price is not expensive." ”

She emphasized the last point, and then pointed to the ghost Teng: "However, although this ghost Teng can make medicine, it is not used at all in this kind of diarrhea, everyone may not be familiar with this ghost Teng, it is extremely difficult to obtain, you need to ask the real masters in the rivers and lakes to collect some, if you want to buy, you have to spend how much you know, just such a small section, it will cost fifty taels, it is when the human body signs are rapidly declining, this ghost Teng can be hanged." ”

Speaking of this, she smiled: "Think about it, they came to me to buy the most ordinary medicine, my price is the most fair, these medicines, I will ask him for dozens of yuan, I don't give him a price of dozens of yuan, I replaced it with fifty taels of ghost Teng, what am I for?" Could it be that it is to murder this woman's life? But I don't know her, so why hurt her? ”

The people who were originally driven by the man came to their senses, and those who believed in Baodan Pavilion cheered first, and then scolded the man for being shameless and blackmailing his wife's life, which was simply not human.

The man panicked, and said, "Who, who said that my wife is poisoned by this ghost?" ”

Qiu Xiaobei shook his head: "It's still stubborn now, wouldn't it be clear if you find a doctor to take a look?" If you don't believe my doctor, you can go to another doctor. ”

The loyal fans of Baodan Pavilion immediately shouted: "Go and ask for a doctor, and take a good look at your wife to see if it is a ghost poison!" ”

"It's really shameless, apologize to the enemy."

"Finally, we came to a pharmacy where we can afford medicine, and if we want to get rid of it, what should we do? Bastard, don't let me meet you anywhere else, see you and hit you once. ”

Many people are not stupid, here in the southeast district, one pharmacy is often opened and a little pharmacy is closed, Baicaotang does not allow a second pharmacy to fight with him, who doesn't know here, now Qiu Xiaobei has proved himself, everyone understands after a little thought, and naturally they are extremely dissatisfied and resentful of the man who dares to harm Baodan Pavilion.

The man panicked, his feet moved back and forth, and finally he urged his companion who came with him: "Go, go." ”

They picked up the plank on which the woman was lying and were about to leave the place in a panic.

"Wait a minute."

The man stammered, "You, what else do you want?" ”

Qiu Xiaobei was very disdainful of this man: "I don't care what you do, but your wife is innocent." ”

She took a bottle of medicine to Xiao Xizi, who walked up to the man and snorted vigorously before squatting down and feeding the medicine to the unconscious woman.

After the man's group ran away in disgrace, Qiu Xiaobei smiled at the onlookers: "Don't block here, everyone should not block here, if you want to buy medicine, you can buy it, and if you don't need it, you can go by yourself, what is there to treat in this pharmacy." ”

"You don't know about Boss Qiu," someone said with a smile, "I would feel uncomfortable in the pharmacy before, but when I entered your pharmacy, I felt comfortable, and I really wanted to sit here and drink tea and chat with people." ”

"yes, yes."

Xiao Xizi thought to herself, of course, the incense ordered here is configured by the master, which can calm the mind and calm the body and mind.

"That's not good," Qiu Xiaobei deliberately kept a straight face, "You are all here, where can I get so many tables and chairs for you to drink tea, get out, get out of here." ”

This half-joking way, compared to the kind of person who is completely pure and fairy-like, Qiu Xiaobei, who looks noble and atmospheric, but is particularly down-to-earth, is more loved by everyone.

Fooling around, the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, but there were many people left to buy medicine, even if they were sick, they felt that people had become cheerful and comfortable when they arrived here, and they talked to their buddies and Lele.

Compared with the peace and joy of Baodan Pavilion, which is not at all like opening a pharmacy, the interior of Baicaotang on the other side is covered with dark clouds.

"Waste, a bunch of waste."

"It was the negligence of his subordinates who asked Xiaojiao to take medicinal materials that can be used as both medicine and poison, so as to frame Baodan Pavilion for using poison, but I didn't expect to ignore the difference in price."

Mainly because the medicines sold by Baicaotang are expensive, even if it is just the medicine for ordinary diarrhea, it is not cheap, so whether to replace the cheap medicine with expensive medicine, it is not bad for Baicaotang at all, anyway, the people don't know that the medicine they usually take is good, bad, cheap and expensive, how do they know that Baodan Pavilion will record the medicine everyone buys so clearly, I thought that the medicine list would become direct evidence, but it turned out to be the evidence of the other party's refutation, and Baodan Pavilion is very sincere, good is good, ordinary is ordinary, clearly distinguished, That is the most advantageous counterattack for Boss Qiu.

"Don't worry, master, there will be no next time, in the southeast area of Kyoto, there will only be a pharmacy in Baicaotang."

……

In Qiu Xiaobei's Baodan Pavilion is getting bigger and bigger, and Boss Qiu's reputation in the southeast area of Kyoto is getting louder and louder, and even when it is spread to other areas, there is an undercurrent in the palace.

The emperor became more and more ill.

The imperial doctor was helpless, thinking that the emperor was just frightened, but later found out that since the wound that should have been a good wolf scratch began to inflame, he knew that the wolf's paws were running in the wild every day, and they might have been stained with something poisonous.

The wound could not be healed, the emperor followed the fever, and was so angry that he became more ill by the repeated events, and the old imperial doctor did not dare to treat the emperor with fierce medicine, so he could only use mild medicine to slowly recuperate, who knew that some of the old problems accumulated by the emperor before would break out at this time, and the emperor's body would be completely collapsed at once.

The queen mother prayed for the emperor in the Buddhist hall all day long, Zhou Guifei's family was still in prison, the four princes were closed in the palace outside the palace, and the five princes saw that the wind was not in the right direction, and they didn't dare to come forward for several days.

On this day, the crown prince came to see the emperor as usual.

"Father, are you better?" The prince sat on a stool beside the bed and carefully helped him twist the quilt.

The emperor glared at him, raised his hand, and put it down weakly.

Fan Shen Xi smiled elegantly: "Father and Emperor seem to be in good spirits today, and the sons and daughters are relieved." Erchen came today, is to report to his father about the private salt, the father is seriously ill in bed, the son should not come to disturb, but the matter of private salt is too important, and the father has always been concerned, the son thought about it, and also discussed with the Taifu them, and decided to ask his father's opinion. ”

The emperor "whined" twice in his mouth, and looked at Fan Shenxi's eyes, obviously dissatisfied.

But Fan Shenxi was like he couldn't feel it, and said freely: "The matter of illegal salt, Erchen has already found out, that is, the Zhou family guards and steals the public salt, smuggling and selling it, and Erchen has asked the other ministers what they mean, they feel that like the Zhou family, dare to steal public salt, dare to assassinate the emperor, it is an unforgivable crime, and it should be punished by the nine clans." ”

The emperor's hand trembled, and his head was about to be raised: "You, you ......"

"Father, don't get excited." Fan Shenxi only pressed it slightly, allowing the emperor to pour back in, "Erchen knows that his father must be very sad, after all, for so many years, his father has always relied on the Zhou family, and he is the only favorite of Zhou Guifei, but he found that he fed all his heart to the dog, and he was also angry when he changed to Erchen." ”

His voice was cold and good, elegant and calm, but what he said was the opposite of his noble appearance, ruthless and vicious, every word was hearty, and the emperor was so angry that his eyes burst out.

"Speaking of which, it's also my father who is blind, it's not good to spoil anyone, spoil Zhou Guifei such a thing, look at yourself like this."

"Shut up, shut up!" The emperor tried his best to squeeze out these two words.

Fan Shenxi smiled slightly: "Erchen is not wrong, for so many years, you have doted on Zhou Guifei and the Fourth Emperor Brother, but you have regarded Erchen as a poisonous snake and poisonous insect, but look at it, you have been seriously ill for a long time, how many of the women and children you have loved are willing to take risks to offend Erchen for you?" When your sons are not allowed to visit you, how many are willing to take the risk to come to see you? ”

He sneered: "In this world, you have fought on the battlefield for you for many years, in order to save you, you used your body to block poisonous arrows, so that you left her young son at a young age, but you don't pity him at all, even the son she gave birth to for you, you want to strangle him." ”

The emperor suddenly coughed violently, Fan Shenxi's eyes were cold, and his hands gently slapped on the back of his chest, and he didn't sincerely help the emperor to calm down.

After coughing for a long time, the emperor turned over, lay on the head of the bed and spit out blood, and also vomited this blood, the cough stopped, he fell back, panting again and again, his face was a little red, and his complexion looked better than just now, of course, this is just an illusion.

However, coughing up the clogged blood, he was able to speak softly: "Heh, heh, if your mother is really loyal, how can she secretly leave the strength for you to deal with me!" ”

"My mother is for me, if she secretly left a force for me, how could I still live until now?" After Fan Shenxi gritted his teeth, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he regained his composure, "Actually, Erchen knows why you hate our mother and son so much, isn't it because of a woman. ”

The emperor's eyes widened: "What do you know?" ”

"I know that my father once liked a woman very much, however, for a prophecy, you must marry my mother, the queen mother is afraid that the woman will affect your decision-making, and she is also afraid that my mother will not want to marry you because of this woman's existence, so she will force you to kill her with your own hands."

Driven by Fan Shenxi to think of the past, the emperor's eyes burst with strong hatred, Fan Shenxi bumped into his hatred, but he laughed lowly: "You hate? What right do you have to hate? Is it because you are greedy for power and want to dominate the world, so you want to marry my mother? Could it be that my mother forced you to marry her? The woman you were forced to kill? My mother was originally an eagle soaring in the sky, but you broke her wings, but you want to blame her in turn? Father, father, you are just your own selfishness, and after killing people, you refuse to admit that it is your own fault, so you forcibly put these sins on the queen mother and me, you are simply the only man I have ever seen, the most unman man, a little eunuch, are more responsible than you, you are still the honor of the ninety-five, simply, waste! ”

"Shut up, stop talk!" The emperor's face turned purple, he reached out with all his strength to shake the bell at the head of the bed, Fan Shenxi sat on the side and smiled and watched without stopping it, the emperor shook for a long time and no one came in, and lay on the side of the bed in frustration.

"Father, you're tired today." Fan Shenxi got up slowly, "Erchen has already inquired about your disposition of the Zhou family, and he already knows in his heart that he will definitely dispose of the Zhou family according to your wishes." The father rested with peace of mind, took care of his body, and recovered as soon as possible, and the son still thought that after the father recovered, he would have a good chat with the father and the emperor, and the son of the minister's childhood. ”

Of course, he knew that his father didn't care much about the Zhou family, but regretted it in his heart.

At the beginning, the emperor asked him to start investigating the private salt, not to deal with the Zhou family, but to force the most patient Zhou Guifei to deal with the prince, only when he found that the backer behind him was not supporting him, and found that he was about to reach the end of the road, he would do everything he could, and the emperor just wanted Zhou Guifei, the Zhou family, to destroy the prince for him.

When the time comes, the emperor will in turn seize the evidence of the Zhou family's crimes, suppress the Zhou family, which has been in the ascendant for several years, and let them keep to themselves.

Who would have thought...... The emperor was ruined and his intestines were blue, and he knew that the prince must have known about it, so he mentioned over and over again how to deal with the Zhou family, so that he would feel uncomfortable.

Fan Shenxi straightened his clothes casually, turned around and walked out, the emperor picked up the bedspread hanging beside the bed, and shouted: "How noble do you think you are? I tell you the truth, I have long suspected that you are not my son at all, and you are not qualified to inherit my throne! ”

Fan was stunned for a moment, turned around, and the emperor smiled proudly at him, even if his breath was uneven at this time, and he was about to die, he wanted to stimulate the prince: "Your queen mother, I don't know which wild man I conceived you with, you don't know how dirty your blood is, you are a mongrel, a bad seed!" ”

Any prince thinks very highly of himself, and is proud of his royal blood, and if he tells himself that he has a wild seed from nowhere, he does not know how to collapse, and the royal family waits to see how embarrassing it will be to see the prince, who thinks he has everything in hand.

But he was wrong, Fan Shenxi actually smiled, with a happy expression: "Thank you father for telling Erchen about this, Erchen is very relieved that what he has on his body is not your blood, and I really don't know if the blood of other men is dirty or not, but the blood on your body," he smiled and said coldly, "It's enough to make Erchen, disgusting!" ”

"You, you ......"

"Hmph." Fan Shenxi didn't want to look at him anymore, walked out of the emperor's bedroom, and ordered the guards outside to guard him.

At this point, what if it is announced to the world that he is not a royal blood?

Can you still depose him, the prince? It's just naïve!

As he walked out, he met Yi Liyun, the commander of the Praetorian Guard loyal to the emperor, who saluted him loyally at this time.

"Look, don't let anyone in and disturb my father's rest."

"Yes!"

The execution of the Zhou family soon came down.

There are hundreds of people in the Zhou family, those who are over 14 years old, they will be decided, and those under the age of 14 will be used as official slaves, and at the same time, all the properties of the Zhou family have been copied.

Over the years of the Zhou family, the people's fat and people's ointment have not been scraped, and the children of the Zhou family have not been less bullying men and women, even if there are innocent people, Fan Shenxi has never been a soft-hearted person, the people will only applaud, maybe they will feel that it is too bloody to kill hundreds of people at once, and the behavior of disaster relief in Fan Shenxi's follow-up has also been offset.

Fan Shenxi remembered what Qiu Xiaobei told her, he wanted to be a king who made the people believe!

The four princes were treated as commoners, imprisoned in the ancestral hall, and spent their lives in dark places.

As for Zhou Guifei...... Fan Shenxi still clearly remembers that year, the queen mother had just passed away, the queen's bedroom was instantly depressed, and there was only quiet and tranquility left around him, and the imperial dining room actually stopped sending food to him, the second prince, and after they were hungry for two days, Zhou Guifei came to visit the concubine of the queen and sent him food.

However, all the food she sent was rancid, and she kindly told him to eat it quickly, don't be hungry, while letting the dozen or so palace people she brought suppress her young self and stuff the moldy, worm-growing food into his mouth.

Eat, he thought, when he is full, he will have the strength to deal with this woman!

His strength was too small to move the queen as soon as she died, so she was promoted to the woman of the concubine, but on the third day, by sending food to the second prince, he sent all the rice and several eunuchs who bullied him every day, and died in the queen's bedroom.

The firelight illuminated the immature little face of the second prince very strangely, there was a kind of fire behind him, it was burned for him, he was the shock of the lord of heaven and earth, and it couldn't be eliminated for a long time in Taifu's heart.

Speaking of which, it was the Taifu who saved the second prince, with the advice of the Taifu, the second prince who changed to the new palace, began to have something to eat, and the fire in the queen's palace was the alarm, although he couldn't give him much good food, but at least it was no longer a rancid meal, and the eunuch who delivered the meal left in a hurry every time he put down the food box.

Because, they all heard a rumor that the eunuchs who died in the queen's palace were not burned to death at all.

Later, he went back to the place where the prince studied, and the master who taught the class turned a blind eye to him, even if he was ridden by his younger brothers and sisters below, the master would say at most, don't make noise in the class, and then punish him for standing outside with a noisy one.

When he was in martial arts, he was the target of the princes and princesses, and the master of the martial arts class said very well, to exercise his courage, tie him to the target, and let all the princes and princesses who practiced riding and archery shoot him...... The target behind him.